Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he had happened to notice devotional vids , he had presumed that the Space Marines recruited exceptional adult fighters , not … he swallowed his pride … not boys . |
| 2 | It was odd really , Gaily decided , on the way home , odd how easy it had been , how he 'd seemed to fit there without too much trouble , and settle down into a way of talking , and acting without any strain . |
| 3 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 4 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 5 | While Rain finished her breakfast , Tim told her how he had decided to see her again and how he found out from Barbara Coleman when the next visit to the villa would be . |
| 6 | Letters to his father in 1928 revealed how he had grown to love the oldest part of the Bodleian — Duke Humfrey 's Library . |
| 7 | She found herself talking about her father — the way he had brought her up alone , how he had tried to dissuade her from a racing career . |
| 8 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 9 | In a statement to police Mr Burn had explained how he had tried to calm Mr Pollard down . |
| 10 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 11 | She prayed that Maisie could somehow see how well her boy had done for himself , and how he had come to regret the hatred that almost destroyed him . |
| 12 | That was how he had come to go on board the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 13 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 14 | Kit could not tell her how he had managed to win such a victory against the local savages . |
| 15 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 16 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 17 | One husband described to me how he has learned to interpret the various kinds of tears his wife sheds . |
| 18 | But I found Eliot quieter and calmer than I had done recently , when he had begun to sign letters ‘ in haste ’ . |
| 19 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 20 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 21 | ‘ Why are you showing me these documents ? ’ he asked when he had finished reading them and passed them to me . |
| 22 | ‘ You might get rather good at it , ’ said Lydia when he had finished declaiming in his beautiful Welsh voice . |
| 23 | Then he remembered the long , toilsome months when he had worked to perfect a style of writing , giving hours to his literature and language assignments , more hours to dissecting other people 's novels . |
| 24 | She was a hangover from the old days , when he had had to hustle the stuff himself . |
| 25 | Certainly there had been times when he had started to caress her and then , with a certain boyish sweetness , had turned lovemaking into conversation , letting the moment pass . |
| 26 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 27 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 28 | She relived that moment when he 'd reached to click off the bedside light , and those cool blue rays had stolen silently into the room , highlighting the unfamiliar ecstasy she 'd somehow denied herself until now … |
| 29 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 30 | Here , nothing grew except needle-like blades of sparse grass , which made Dauntless 's horse curl back his lips and roll his eyes when he 'd tried to eat it . |